It’s the only animal shelter in Pasquotank and Camden Counties, so their kennels and cages are often full.

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This year’s Hampton Roads Clear the Shelters event comes after last year’s highly successful national effort, which resulted in nearly 20,000 animals finding new homes in oneday, and 53,000 pets finding forever homes in the three weeks leading up to the nationwide event. The unprecedented partnership included NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations (11 NBC stations, 17 Telemundo stations) 35 NBC Affiliates and more than 700 animal shelters located all across the country and in Puerto Rico.

The Clear the Shelters initiative first launched in 2014 in the Dallas-Fort Worth market as a partnership between KXAS, KXTX and dozens of North Texas animal shelters. The effort from 2014 resulted in more than 2,200 animals adopted in one day, the most adopted in one day in North Texas.

WAVY-TV 10 and WVBT FOX43 wants to help address the overcrowding issues that animal shelters typically experience in the summer months because of spring litters. It is our intent to make Clear the Shelters an event that is easy for animal lovers to participate in. Take a look at our featured Pets of the Week to find your forever friend. And, check out our Kitty Camhosted by the Norfolk SPCA and Virginia Beach SPCA, to see if one of these cool cats look like they could be the purr-fect companion. We look forward to helping animals find new, loving permanent homes. Together, we can be agents for change and make a difference here in Hampton Roads and nationwide.

About Clear the Shelters

Nearly 700 shelters across the country are teaming up with NBC Owned Television Stations and Telemundo for Clear the Shelters, a nationwide pet adoption drive on Saturday, August 19 that helps find loving homes for animals in need. Over 50,000 pets found their forever homes in 2016.